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Abstract

Examination of the microfabric of orthogneisses and hornblende schists from the foreland region of the northwestern Highlands, Scotland, reveals a lineation striking predominantly northwest to southeast which was caused, not by Caledonian (early Paleozoic), but probably by pre-Torridonian (pre-Cambrian) crustal movements.